Marijuana Public Consumption

How it started

Dec 3, 2018 · Proposed by Councillors Kelley and Simmons: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Dec 3, 2018 · ✅ Order adopted

Recorded in the negative (1)

Timothy J. Toomey

Present for the voice vote (8)

Alanna Mallon
Craig A. Kelley
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Marc McGovern
Quinton Zondervan
Sumbul Siddiqui

Adopted by voice vote, with dissent recorded in the minutes. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions, but a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes. Councillor Timothy J. Toomey did (minutes of Dec 3, 2018, p. 28). Showing the other members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge · dissent: council minutes

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

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SECTION 1. Beginning in July, 2019, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the City of Cambridge will have the authority to allow public consumption of marijuana and marijuana-related places on City Property subject to existing laws on smoking tobacco.

SECTION 2. This act shall take full effect upon its acceptance and appropriate by vote of the City Council of said City, but not otherwise.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Dec 3, 2018